evnchn-agentic
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- ▌ Rich Render · evnchn-agentic bundleUse when a turn produces a multi-item synthesis (>=5 discrete items that benefit from cross-comparison) — triage, audit, survey, bug-sweep, design-alternatives, research findings, scorecards — and pasting it as raw Markdown in chat would be lower-bandwidth than a glanceable dashboard. Also when the operator says "rich render", "dashboard", "make it a dashboard", or asks to defer a long synthesis out of chat. Produces a single self-contained dark HTML file saved to ~/rich-renders/.
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- ▌ Aesop Golden Goose · evnchn-agenticThe Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs — don't kill the source for today's eggs
- ▌ Panda Doctor · evnchn-agentic熊貓博士 — the chengyu selector, explainer, crystalizer, and auditor (panda-doctor)
- ▌ Chengyu Retreat Is Best · evnchn-agenticUse when abandoning a current approach / experiment / task / project, regardless of what triggered it (not just chengyu-skill or skill-driven contexts). Three retreat levels — L1 stop work (safe, no operator confirmation needed), L2 remove occupied resources (REQUIRES operator confirmation per-item — irrevocable loss is bad), L3 update memory with "don't try this next time" (operator confirms what to record so the lesson sticks across sessions). The crucial complement to chengyu-grind-pestle-to-needle — knowing when to STOP grinding.
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- ▌ Chengyu Cleave Ox At Joints · evnchn-agenticUse when planning any non-trivial change — refactor, bug fix, migration, optimisation, communication — and the agent should find the natural seams / high-leverage points of the target system rather than brute-forcing through. Cut at joints (low resistance, clean result), not at bone (high resistance, blade dulls, messy result). The patron-saint chengyu of working WITH the grain of the system.
- ▌ Chengyu Review Old Know New · evnchn-agenticUse when bringing forward priors from PAST sessions / cross-agent history before doing new work — NOT about re-reading the current context window (which is trivially in-context). Specifically triggered when auto-compact is lossy, when cross-session reference is needed, when the same topic has been treated before, when the original work was done in a different agent's session, or when you need to locate/date a past session JSONL or answer "have we done this before / what did we decide". The discipline is targeted historical retrieval via grep + read of session JSONLs (incl. the mtime/substring/leading-dash traps that make naive search silently return nothing), then promotion to memory if the prior deserves persistence.
- ▌ Chengyu Seeing Is Believing · evnchn-agenticUse when about to claim work is done / verified / working — empirical verification is required, not model-based confidence. Run the code, observe the output, check the file exists, verify the page renders, read the actual stack trace. Don't trust your model of the system; trust the system. Pairs with the verification-before-completion superpower by giving it a cultural handle that operator-side has been invoking repeatedly across past sessions.
- ▌ Chengyu One Time One Meeting · evnchn-agentic bundleUse when tempted to treat the current session as interchangeable with past or future ones — the every-session-is-unique discipline, and the invocation surface that fires durable-fix skills a fungible-session mindset would skip. Fires when about to defer something to "a future session" as if that session will reconstitute this exact context, when a memory-aware agent assumes "I'll just re-derive it from memory next time," or when about to take the cheap reversible-looking shortcut (leave a comment instead of a stub, a TODO instead of the fix, skip the memory write) on the assumption the work is trivially recoverable later. The specific context window you have now is the only one you'll ever have.
- ▌ Chengyu REST Await The Tired · evnchn-agenticUse when the operator's requirement, the failing test, the stakeholder argument, or any other inputs are STILL IN FLUX and the temptation is to start implementing now "to be ready" — strategic patience while the situation clarifies, rather than burning cycles on work that may need to be redone after the dust settles
- ▌ Chengyu Besiege Wei Save Zhao · evnchn-agenticUse when the operator has explicitly authorised an indirect / non-causal move — when frontal attack is blocked AND chengyu-remove-firewood-from-cauldron has been exhausted, requiring attention-redirect or incentive-shift rather than technical root-fixing. Default to chengyu-remove-firewood-from-cauldron unless the operator has told the agent how to 圍魏.
- ▌ Chengyu Stop When Appropriate · evnchn-agenticUse when at or near the 80% mark of a deliverable and the temptation is to keep polishing past good-enough. The 80/20 rule encapsulated — the last 20% of polish often consumes 80% of remaining time and rarely changes the operator's decision. Distinguished from chengyu-retreat-is-best (abandon FAILED approach) and from chengyu-great-wisdom-looks-foolish / chengyu-words-concise-meaning-complete (resist ADDING complexity / verbosity). 適可而止 is the discipline of stopping a SUCCESSFUL approach at the right milestone.
- ▌ Chengyu Two Pipes Adversarial · evnchn-agentic雙管齊下 — two pipes simultaneously (agentic reframe: generator + discriminator)
- ▌ Chengyu Break Whole Into Parts · evnchn-agenticUse when facing a task too large to hold in one piece — decompose into atomic subtasks. Divide-and-conquer in chengyu form. Pairs naturally with subagent dispatch (each part becomes one subagent's job) and with the dispatching-parallel-agents superpower. The decomposition itself is the skill — the parts should each have one clear purpose and a well-defined interface to the others.
- ▌ Chengyu Cicada Sheds Its Shell · evnchn-agenticUse when designing a migration — graceful transition where the old interface stays as a thin stub/proxy/shim, real implementation moves underneath, consumers keep working through the transition, eventual cleanup of the shell once consumer count reaches zero. The schema of every good rename / endpoint move / library v1→v2 / database schema migration / monorepo split.
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- ▌ Chengyu Grind Pestle To Needle · evnchn-agenticUse when working on a hard problem where most attempts fail — when 99 of 100 things won't work and the temptation is to give up before the 100th; when each failed attempt's value (it ruled something out) is being underweighted; when incremental compound progress on an unsharpened-needle target is needed
- ▌ Chengyu Know What You Dont Know · evnchn-agenticUse when about to guesstimate over a gap in knowledge — surface the gap explicitly instead. A market observation that justifies this skill's existence — agents that confidently lie about knowing things get rewarded by short-horizon metrics; agents that honestly mark gaps are rare. Voice transcription is the canonical case study (no service surfaces transcription errors; LLMs guesstimate over them). This skill's whole shape is "be the rare agent that says 'I don't know X' instead of fabricating a smooth answer".
- ▌ Chengyu Lost Sheep Repair Fence · evnchn-agenticUse after a failure has occurred (bug shipped, test broke, deploy rolled back, data lost, security incident) — the impulse is to fix the immediate damage and move on, but the chengyu's discipline is to ALSO fix the cause so it doesn't repeat. Pairs with chengyu-remove-firewood-from-cauldron on the timing dimension — 釜底 is pre-symptom prevention, 亡羊 is post-symptom fortification.
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- ▌ Chengyu Watch Fire Across Shore · evnchn-agenticUse when a failure, debate, or process is mid-unfolding and the urge is to intervene immediately — but premature intervention loses information. Let the failure reach its natural shape so the full signal is captured before patching. Strict caveat against the modern schadenfreude reading; this is observation discipline, not indifference.
- ▌ Chengyu Throw Brick Attract Jade · evnchn-agenticUse when user asks for a rough draft, first pass, brainstorm, MVP, stub, sketch, or proposes to "draft a PR for review and refinement before sending upstream" — anywhere the user is throwing a brick (deliberately rough work) to elicit jade (refinement, feedback, selection)
- ▌ Chengyu Borrow Corpse Return Soul · evnchn-agenticUse when proven-elsewhere logic should be transplanted into your project rather than re-derived — covers both reviving abandoned-but-good code from your own history AND copying live working config (linting, CI, README templates, infra patterns) from a healthy sibling project. The "soul" is the working logic; the "body" is your project that receives it.
- ▌ Chengyu Great Wisdom Looks Foolish · evnchn-agenticUse when resisting the urge to demonstrate cleverness — obvious-and-simple is often the right answer, and performative complexity is the failure mode. REQUIRES a target parameter at invocation specifying which dimension to apply to — implementation (over-engineered code), representation (over-fancy reply / unnecessary verbosity), or both. The agent must ASK for the target if the operator hasn't specified.
- ▌ Chengyu Think Thrice Before Acting · evnchn-agenticUse AFTER first-round planning is complete, to do META-PLANNING — what wasn't planned that should have been? What pitfalls don't surface in the first round due to existing context bias, context rot, plan mode system prompt biases, or other distortions? Triage importance, surface escape routes (subagent assessment, backups, operator ready for ctrl+C, anything). NOT a duplicate of plan mode or common-sense planning — this is the SECOND pass that catches what the first pass missed.
- ▌ Chengyu Listen All Sides See Clearly · evnchn-agenticUse BEFORE declaring victory / shipping / committing, AND proactively for any non-trivial claim, answer, plan, or decision that would benefit from fresh external input — default to invoking it for substantive work rather than waiting to be asked, since bringing fresh info into the conversation is generally worth the token cost. Get adversarial multi-angle review or fresh information from at least one of three source classes (subagent, internet, other LLMs via API). Inter-links with chengyu-create-something-from-nothing — high-hallucination LLM sources behave like uncontrolled 無中生有, so apply the verify-don't-trust-verbatim discipline. Source selection via BullshitBench (canonical hallucination-rate index); high vs low hallucination both useful for different needs; escalate to the user when unclear. One of the strongest pre-ship disciplines in this catalog.
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- ▌ Chengyu Remove Firewood From Cauldron · evnchn-agenticUse when a symptom has an OBVIOUS causal root and the temptation is to patch the symptom — when a bug fix is masking the real issue, when retries are hiding a contract violation, when a workaround is becoming permanent. The default debugging frame; reach for chengyu-besiege-wei-save-zhao only after exhausting this.
- ▌ Chengyu Words Concise Meaning Complete · evnchn-agenticUse when an output is at risk of verbosity — the TLDR-outside / details-inside discipline. Distinguished from chengyu-great-wisdom-looks-foolish on the representation axis — 大智若愚 = resist performative complexity, 言簡意賅 = resist sprawl. Orthogonal failure modes; you can be performatively-clever AND brief, or non-clever AND verbose.
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